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PUBLIC LAW 85-900-SEPT. 2, 1958

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(1) "Persons employed in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project" shall mean all persons who are so employed, whether by a Federal agency or by an agent designated pursuant to 43 USC 6 l 8 h. section 9 of the Adjustment Act, and who are resident in the municipality. This term shall not include persons employed in municipal operations of the municipality; 43 USC 617 e( (m) "Project" shall mean the works authorized by the Project Act aeq. to be constructed and owned by the United States, exclusive of the diversion dam, main canal, and appurtenances mentioned therein, now known as the Ail-American Canal System; 43 USC 617 et (n) "Project Act" shall mean the Boulder Canyon Project Act seq. (45 Stat. 1057); (0) "Secretary" shall mean the Secretary of the Interior. Sale of SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary is authorized to sell such dwelling housing. houses, duplex houses or units thereof, and garages, with furniture, fixtures, and appurtenances, as are owned by the United States within the Boulder City municipal area and are not needed in connection with the administration, operation, and maintenance of Federal activities located within or near the Boulder City municipal area. (b) Except in the case of property determined to be substandard under subsection (c) of this section, the following system of priority shall be established with respect to property authorized to be sold under subsection (a) of this section: Purchase right. (1) Persons employed by the Federal Government within or near the Boulder City municipal area (and surviving spouses of such persons who have not remarried) who are tenants m Federal housing in Boulder City shall be offered the opportunity to purchase the property in which they are tenants at the appraised value as established under subsection (d) of this section. This right of priority shall expire unless notice of intent to purchase has been received by the Secretary before the expiration of sixty days after the date on which the property has been offered for sale, and shall be deemed abandoned unless before the expiration of sixty days after the Secretary's tender of the instrument of transfer the prospective purchaser concludes the sale; Applicants. (2) Persons employed by the Federal Government within or near the Boulder City municipal area may apply to purchase housing not purchased under subsection (b)(1) of this section. Applicants to purchase shall be placed in order of opportunity to choose pursuant to a public drawing, but spouses of such applicants shall not be entitled to apply. Sales shall be made at the appraised value as established under subsection (d) of this section, and selections and purchases by successful applicants shall be concluded within limits of time to be established by the Secretary. A purchase under subsection (b)(1) or (b)(2) of this section shall render the purchaser and any spouse of such purchaser ineligible thereafter to purchase under subsection (b)(1) or (b) (2*); and _ Unsold property. (3) Property subject to disposal under this section and not sold pursuant to subsections (b)(1) and (b)(2) of this section shall be opened to bids from the general public, and shall be sold to the highest responsible bidder. E l i g i b i l i t y to I n the event that incorporation of the municipality shall be effected purchase. within four years after the date of this Act, persons purchasing housing under this subsection or their successors, assigns, or legal representatives, shall be entitled to a reduction in the purchase price (or rebate as appropriate) of 10 per centum: Provided., That no person who has purchased a house under the Act of May 25, 1948 (62 Stat. 268), shall be eligible for such reduction. S u bstandard (c) Where the Secretary determines that property authorized to be property. sold under subsection (a) of this section is substandard, he shall sell

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